Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu on Saturday alleged that the AIADMK walked out of the Assembly citing a “lame” and untrue reason as it did not want to antagonise the BJP by supporting the government’s resolution to readopt the Bills for which Governor R.N. Ravi had withheld assent.
Addressing media after the special session of the Assembly, he said that the reason cited by the Leader of the Opposition for the walkout was false. He said the government was not revoking the previous AIADMK government’s decision to rename Tamil Nadu Fisheries University (TNFU) after late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
He said the amendment Bill brought in by the AIADMK government in 2020 to change the university’s name after the late CM was pending with the Governor for long. It was among the Bills for which the Governor had recently communicated his decision to withhold assent.
